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Mexican flag carrier has new investors but its flight remains bumpyWeather-casters occasion forecast "partly sunny with a chance of rain." And this pretty much the forecast for Mexicana Airlines, which along with Aeromexico is one of the two flag carriers of our neighbor to the south. I haven't written posts ...
Travel consumer advocate Chris Elliott provides answers and cautionsIf I had to make a list of the most trustworthy people I know or have witnessed in public life, Christopher Elliott would be high on it. I've followed his published articles advocating on behalf of travelers and online consumer travel site for ...
Four yurts now with more to come provide affordable comfortSnow Mountain Ranch/YMCA of the Rockies between Winter Park and Granby provides some of the best lodging and recreation values around. With accommodations ins large lodges, cabins and campgrounds. it has long provided affordable options in various types of lodging. Another was added this year: four yurts, ...
Fly as much as you like for a month for one feeNote on 8/18 8:25 p.m.: JetBlue just Tweted that its All You Can Jet pass has sold out.People with large appetites love all-you-can eat restaurants. People who want to ski their legs off buy season passes for unlimited skiing ...
Go direct to the hotel if booking sites claim there's no room at the innThe Society of American Travel Writers upcoming convention is in Germany. My husband and I signed up for a pre-convention hiking trip in the Black Forest. We are flying into Frankfurt, arriving on a Sunday, with ...
The current cost of doing business as airlines consolidateRepainting planes, merging headquarters, introducing new uniforms, ordering new stationary, integrating staffs....these are some of the issues that came to mind when airlines merge. Associated Press reported good news/bad news related to Republic Airways' takeover first of Midwest and then of Frontier ...
Travel journalist Bruce Northam urges intuition when soloingJulia Roberts is all over the tube these days promoting the movie, "Eat, Pray, Love," based on Elizabeth Gilbert's best-selling bookabout her soul-searching odyssey to mend a broken heart. My travel-writer colleague Bruce Northam (left) wrote "Eat Pray Love, and Be Cautious," as the title implies, ...
Very teensy town and very large statue along Interstate 80This past weekend four of us did a short road trip -- Boulder-Cheyenne-Laramie-Snowy Range-Boulder. Of Interstate 80's 2,909 miles between the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and New York-New Jersey's George Washington Bridge, the 47 modest miles from Cheyenne to Laramie contain two places ...
...in the eyes of a clever cartoonistMy friend and travel writer colleague Reed Glenn sent me the link to the New York Times' "Abstract City" and Christoph Niemann's "Red Eye," a spot-on pen-and-ink commentary on long-haul flights.I laughed till I cried as I was scrolling through the whole thing, so ...
Weather deterred us once again from climbing iconic mountain in southern Wyoming Wyoming's highest mountain is 13.804-foot Gannett Peak in the Wind River Range, and the 13,775-foot Grand Teton, the centerpiece of spectacular Grand Teton National Park is runnerup. At 12,013 feet, Medicine Bow Peak is not even in the same ...
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